Ostranauts

The space privateer sim I’ve been waiting for since the 1990s

Unplayable game. Every mechanic is obnoxiously obtuse, I spend over half a hour trying to install a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ battery charger with it in my inventory and the game keeps saying missing item.

Solid do not buy. The vibe is great but when I have to fight the menus this hard to get into a game I'm not recommending it to anyone with something better to do.

I closed and refunded as soon as I had to choose a pronoun for my character. I signed up to play a space salvage simulator; not a body dysmorphia/mental illness simulator.

this game could be cool but it needs time to cook the good - flying is fun - fixing a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ to be something good is fun - taking a ship apart is fun - learning what's worth selling, keeping, or selling is fun - the gig system is fun - the pda has stuff like an in game timer and notepad the bad - the build planer feels bad to use - the pda takes up the left half of the screen - the AI has a stroke when following the build planer (will often go outside of the ship when it can be done on the inside) - when building a ship the whole the AI will take one lose item at a time even if it stacks (pick up one floor, drop off the floor, pick up one new floor, repeat) - most items that can stack will not do so if the durability is not the same (a 80% floor doesn't stack with an 81% floor) - stolen ships have a 10 second delay when you enter the pilot seat - barter zones don't work on stolen ships - for a stolen ship to be "yours" you need to buy it - you cannot own NPC ships

Game is nowhere near 1.0 release point both content wise and *especially* bug wise

6 years of wait, bought almost at instant when saw it in store waited and prayed it wont be like with Neo Scavenger Its Neo Scavenger all over again guys... 6 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ years and we still dont have passanger missions, we have broken as ♥♥♥♥ AI, game breaking bugs that can delete saves or softlock it, 1 questline that ends game when we finish it and big empty world sparkling with possobilites and words of developers "we planning 1 major update and will continue add fixes, QoL etc and if sales of 1.0 will be good we will continue developing game for 2-3 more years" Buying or not is up to you but for me its Neo Scavenger all over again. I love the game but i can no longer tolerate devs - You guys had already a huge black stain on your reputation with Neo Scavenger, but made a look like nothing ever happened, wont work again! Create social interactions, create full working police force, create illegal things, create licenses for scrapping and other stuff - make ship to ship battles before making all 3 main good mechanics touch each other like taxi quests or anything related to social play - fivehead move. i love this game like i loved space rangers in childhood, i love starsector i love space games like Space Station 13/14 where you play as yourself and game ends when you die and you must work, fight idno be whoever you are in space and yet almost all of thouse games eather died or have bad things happened to them is a huge shame

Ostranauts is a little rough around the edges - still in EA - but for those who want the closest thing out there to really being beltalowda - stripping, building, flying and flipping ships, building up a loyal crew, trading goods, or exploring the belt - all while avoiding the inyalowda influence best you can, it's just the thing. You'll need patience to learn the game systems, and both an eye and desire for detail. You will die the first few (several?) times you play. Over time you'll pick up the rhythm of character generation (repeat as you like initially). You'll learn not to mass designate jobs in overly large vertical swaths because the column-first task ordering is making your character (and eventually crew) keep walking around walls you aren't trying to remove and waste a lot time. You'll realize that you should just (almost) always wear an EVA suit and have a crate filled with backpacks in your right hand, keeping the other one free. You'll learn to love the laser torch, but NEVER for combat (except occasional BBQ). Make friends and influence people: it's nice to be able to ask your friend behind the port authority desk to give you a break on docking fees when you're low on credits. Never run your ship anywhere until you've at least spit-shined all the electrical conduits. Nobody likes spark-induced fires. Oh and don't walk outside without your helmet. Bugs are definitely still in there in places, especially NPC AI, but they're getting regularly addressed by the developers. The core loops of the game are in place and hellaciously fun to play. It's incredibly satisfying to buy a derelict, salvage some other 2 or 3 wrecks, and turn what you started with into a whole damn fusion torch-drive beauty you can sell for $$$$$$$. Do that enough, and maybe you're eyeing doing an interplanetary trade run to Venus...? When you get there, note the eccentricity of the orbital station's orbit! You'll definitely want to think about whether it makes more sense to approach at apogee or perigee... KSP experience will pay dividends there. Seems like half the playerbase wants the game to be easier and more arcadey, and the other half wants more hardcore sim like requiring perfect directional pre-approach to initiate docking. For my part, it's right in the sweet spot. Recent addition of secondary airlocks has been the killer app for me - I can tether my current wreck under repair to my main flying warehouse and go plunder the boneyard without having to worry about leaving one of them carefully orbiting somewhere. :chefs_kiss: Oyedeng beratna!